Hurrish was published in 1886, in Edinburgh, by
Blackwood and Son. Its subtitle – A Study –
reflects the wealth of detail which the novel provides in its
descriptions of the Burren region of Co. Clare,
peasant mentalité, political unrest, and the Irish
constabulary and judiciary. Furthermore, the narrator offers
numerous asides on Anglo-Irish relations and makes predictions of
the “coming Irish Republic” (81). Many contemporary British
reviewers remarked that the novel had the effect of “explaining”
Ireland to them: Gladstone wrote that Lawless had made present to
her readers “as a living reality, the estrangement of the people of
Ireland from the l…

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